Iconic Outfit

aka: Trademark Clothing

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You instantly know who this is, but how often has he actually worn this outfit?

An outfit that, for whatever reason, is considered iconic for a certain character. This can happen even if it's not intended to be embarrassing or funny, but simply a strange fashion choice. The character might never wear it again, nor even anything like it. Maybe the wardrobe people or artists were just bored one day. There's just something unique, inappropriate or just plain odd. Very rarely, the producers are aware of it, and it may become a sort of alternate outfit if a similar situation lets the makers bring it out again.

Sometimes the popularity of these outfits make the writers have the character wear the outfit as much as possible. Then you have Clothes Make the Legend, and even Costume Evolution doesn't change the basic form too much.

Compare Iconic Item. If what the character is called is itself derived from the outfit, it's the Person with the Clothing. In the event of a Shallow Parody, the character will be wearing that outfit, no exceptions — that may be the only thing they get right.

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Anime & Manga

Haruhi in Ouran High School Host Club is first seen by the viewer in a plain, ugly sweater and glasses combo with messy hair. This is explained by a long string of coincidences and Haruhi's overall disinterest in fashion.

The Senshi attire (especially Sailor Moon's) is one of the most recognizable outfits in the Magical Girl genre. To a lesser extent, normal Sailor Fuku as well as they look similar to Senshi uniform.

There's also Sailor Mars's civilian outfit, a miko priestess outfit that is in some ways more recognizable than her Senshi uniform.

The Tokyo Mew Mew animators weren't so good with costume design, so most clothes that didn't first appear in the manga got weird looks. One recurring outfit, a white and lime green hooded top given to the resident bad boy, stuck out so much (both for the color scheme and for being out of character) that it appeared again, in a Detective School Q ending theme, worn by his same-voicedExpy.

Vegeta: On a serious level, his Bulma-designed Saiyan armor is perhaps his most recognizable outfit. On a more humorous level, his pink"BADMAN" shirt.

Future Trunks has his black tank top, blue jacket, grey pants, orange and black-tipped boots, and his sword. Despite the fact that he actually loses the sword fairly early on when it gets broken in a fight, all artwork and fan work continues to portray him with it.

Master Roshi's shades, hawaiian t-shirt, turtle shell, and staff.

Mahou Sensei Negima!: Setsuna was once made to wear a cute alternate catgirlmaid costume to make her more attractive to the crowd watching her fights. She started wearing it later for no reason other than being popular with the readers — the Pactio can be registered with a variety of outfits for battle. Maybe Konoka liked it...

Code Geass: Lelouch vi Britannia's Nice Hat after he became Emperor of Britannia started a fanclub... before the episode aired. That entire outfit he wore is also quite distinctive, having been described as a cross between pope and old-fashioned sea captain, resulting in him being drawn in it whenever he shows up in new fan art, as opposed to his old Zero outfit, which was already quite iconic by itself.

The mechanized Bonta-kun outfit probably gets more attention than most Full Metal Panic! characters do naturally. It is a Powered Armor suit that's essentially a miniature Arm Slave.

Knuckles' wonderful, wonderful hat from the Sonic the Hedgehog OVA. It even carried over to the Alternate TimelineArchie comic story Mobius: 25 Years Later, where it's finally complemented with a form-fitting gray sleeveless jumpsuit (with his trademark white chest swoosh on the front), Crocodile Dundee-esque leather vest, cowboy belt, and brown leather boots. It's become an Iconic Outfit of its own. It appeared briefly in the regular timeline too, as a piece of clothing once worn by an ancestor of his. According to one letters page, the reason he never wears it is so it won't get damaged.

Detective Conan: Conan Edogawa's suit and bowtie. He did had a case of Limited Wardrobe earlier, but even now he has a larger variety of clothes, his suit and bowtie not only means him, but also the entire meaning of Great Detective. In modern comedic manga, changing to Conan's suit means s/he's going into Great Detective mode.

England, in a single strip and most likely not in his right mind, dresses up in an angel outfit and calls himself "Britannia Angel". Only in one short strip did he do this, but there are a lot of fanworks of Britannia Angel.

Also, England scores again with his "Sexy Waiter" outfit, which is basically the lower half of a Hadaka Apron.

In Ranma ˝, the title character wears a wide variety of outfits throughout the course of the anime. He is likewise depicted wearing Chinese tangs in a variety of colors in promotional artwork for the manga.

Lupin's red or green jacket paired with black or white pants and a black or blue shirt and yellow necktie — which is doubly famous thanks to Nabeshin'sAuthor Avatarstealing it... Hell, you don't even have to mention the name itself, all you have to say is "The Red Jacket" and a lot of people will instantly know what you're talking about. Fans go so far as to classify where Lupin media falls in the franchise by jacket color.

Fujiko's doesn't wear her Spy Catsuit as much as the other four wear their outfits. In fact, due to her aversion to the Limited Wardrobe trope, Fujiko Cosplayers aren't always recognized in the catsuit, either.

Also Celty's Kitty-Cat-Eared yellow biking helmet, which was a joke by the illustrator but loved so much by the animators that it became her stock outfit in the Anime. And no, the cat ears don't have anything to do with anything, especially when you know that Celty is a Dullahan.

One Piece: ALL of the male Straw Hat Pirates' outfits are notable and memorable considering they don't change until well into the manga. And of course the straw hat itself. To a lesser extent, Robin's Hell-Bent for Leatheroutfit◊ from the Enies Lobby arc. It's still appearing in games and other materials 10 years after she stopped wearing it.

After an episode of Mega Man Battle Network had most of the main cast (yes, even the males) Cosplay as Aki-chan to serve as decoys, with some of them looking patently ridiculous, drawing various characters in that cosplay caught on. Including characters who originally didn't do the cosplay in that particular episode, and especially characters who look even more ridiculous in it.

Inazuma Eleven had a gag where Endou's mom wrote "Endou" in marker across the back of a pair of his boxers in embarrassingly large handwriting, to ensure he wouldn't get his laundry mixed up with anyone else's at an overnight training camp. That pair of boxers tends to show up in fan works as Goofy Print Underwear whenever a Comedic Underwear Exposure gag has Endou as one of the victims.

Madoka is quite often drawn in the white-dressed form she unveils when superpowered in the final episode, often referred to as "Goddess Madoka". This outfit showed for probably about 2 seconds.

Madoka's red hair ribbon becomes this in the last episode, when she gives it to Homura. To fans of the series, long black hair + red ribbon instantly brings Homura (and Madoka) to mind. In the first episode, Madoka almost wears a yellow ribbon instead, so the writers apparently planned its iconicness from the beginning.

As a broader, franchise-wide example, goggles on a Digimon character have such a strong association with being worn by The Hero of whatever particular series that Masaru not wearing them is downright unusual. It's more a franchise-wide thing than any particular character, but were it to be pinned to any particular character it would be Taichi (both of him) as a result of First Installment Wins, and because the exact same goggles were passed on toDaisuke (who even before that wore goggles of his own).

Ask which outfit fans best remember Yusuke wearing in YuYu Hakusho and nine out of ten times it'll be his trademark green school uniform. Even though he isn't seen regularly wearing it anymore by the time of the Dark Tournament arc, it's still the garb he's best known for.

The main character wears vibrant orange-and-blue jacket and pants, an outfit famous for making him a Highly Visible Ninja. Also there's the orange-and-black Shippuden outfit.

The green, skin-tight suit Lee and Guy wear is one of the most recognizable outfits in the series.

Also, the standard green flak vest worn by Chunin and Jonin ninja.

Sasuke's blue shirt and khaki pants.

The outfit worn by all Akatsuki members: a black cloak that is decorated with red clouds.

Alita/Gally's very first outfit in Battle Angel Alita was a sleeveless black jumpsuit with baggy beige-colored boots with large metal knee guards, and an equally baggy duster (that came off if any ass-kicking was needed.) It's since become her most iconic and recognizable outfit.

The outfit of Haruhi, complete with hair ribbon and school uniform, is so iconic that it has become a considerably famous in-joke in the otaku community that you can recognize her simply by her color scheme◊. Said joke even made it into Ragnarok Online with the skill icon for Gloomy Shyness◊ (also translatable as Melancholy).

The Amestris Military uniform is equally iconic to the series as a whole, since it's worn by every non-civilian in the series. For cosplayers, four people will be assumed to be cosplayed, based on items and/or gender: Man with gloves, Mustang; Woman with gun, Hawkeye; Man with brass knuckles, Alex Louise Armstrong; Woman with a Sword and/or fur-trimmed winter jacket, Maj. Gen. Olivier Mira Armstrong.

Scar has his orange jacket and his Cool Shades from his first few appearances.

Ryou Bakura has his blue and white striped t-shirt. Yami Bakura has that plus the black trenchcoat he wore in the series' final arc.

Nitori from Wandering Son is associated with a Sailor Fuku because she originally wore it to pass as a girl. She later starts wearing a variety of clothes and even abandons sailor fuku in high school (she brought a blazer school uniform), yet she is associated with a blue sailor fuku. Likewise, Takatsuki is associated with gakuran because they often wore them until late middle school.

This is the reason why superhero characters wear brightly coloredspandex. Also why most older characters are still wearing the same outfit they did decades earlier. The one time Superman had his outfit changed in canon is one of the bigger Dork Age moments of the 90s. And Superman's outfit was originally designed simply to be colorful and easy to draw, because comics had very limited printing capabilities in the 1940s. Whenever the comics change a character's look significantly, it likely won't stick to merchandising or adaptations. To wit; grey Hulk, Spider-Man and his black outfit, and Wolverine and his bone claws.

Wolverine has two outfits that are used with almost equal prominence: he started in yellow and blue, moved to a brown and tan outfit, then returned to the yellow and blue because Jim Lee liked the look. The yellow and blue is slightly more prominent currently, but brown and tan has been used on occasion nevertheless. Another iconic feature for all his costumes is the distinctive brow extensions of their cowls; even in silhouette they're instantly recognizable.

Batman's silhouette is so iconic he has a villain whose goal in life is just to steal his cowl. The fight for Batman's successor was even called Battle for the Cowl.

Wiccan, his cape and his (no longer worn) winged head piece.◊ Everyone remembers the cape. Everyone remembers that time Wiccan worn the cape over his civilians. The Young Avengers el-jay comm has declared Wiccan/Cape to be canon and the comm's unanimously accepted OTP.

Kate Bishop's "original" outfit consisting of a torn purple bridesmaid dress, Black Widow's belt, Mockingbird's mask, and the original Hawkeye's bow - ah remembered well. (This also led to her initially being referred to as "Hawkingbird")

That one time Deadpool wore Marvel Girl's outfit. Because it was burned into the eyes of readers (you can't unsee it, even if you've never seen it!), but still remembered (though the panties turn up again later).

The X-Men are invariably remembered, redrawn, and cosplayed in their 90's era Jim Lee outfits, particularly Cyclops's blue-and-yellow chest belt and his Underwear of Power, Rogue's yellow-and-green bodysuit with headband and bomber jacket, Psylocke's Leotard of Power, Storm's white uniform◊, and Jubilee's bright yellow trench coat and pink sunglasses. That the X-Men wore these during the height of their popularity (plus the '90s cartoon and Marvel vs. Capcom games) probably has something to do with it. Only Psylocke's bathing suit has survived to the present day. Storm also has her fan-beloved 80's leather outfit and mohawk◊, with the mohawk eventually making a comeback when Brian Wood took over the book in 2013. Also, considering that she only wore it for two issues, the costume that Rogue fashioned for herself in the Savage Land from the tattered pieces of an old costume and a yellow T-shirt (Uncanny X-Men #269 and 274, again drawn by Jim Lee) is still insanely popular among cosplayers, fan-artists and people asking for sketches at comic conventions.

This goes more for the film than for the comic, but Adrian Veidt's delicious purple blazer so qualifies. He's dressed very innocuously most of the time, and the jacket's not exactly odd for the 80s, but when you think of Adrian Veidt, you probably think of him in that blazer. God, so purple.

Gwen Stacy's headband. The black headband has become such an iconic symbol that it's appeared in movies, cartoons, and even Gwen's long-lost daughter Sarah was given one to remind us she looks exactly like Gwen.

The outfit Gwen Stacy died in: Long green coat, black boots, shirt and a purple skirt. So iconic The Amazing Spider-Man 2 actually pretty faithfully translated that outfit on to the screen and as soon as that photo linked everyone who knew anything about the character figured out the Foregone Conclusion.

Also, Mary Jane Watson's sleeveless black tank top and tight purple pants from her first full appearance in Amazing Spider-Man #42 - brought back in One More Day to remind us that this is Mary Jane.

In Transmetropolitan, Spider Jerusalem wears a black jacket over a bare chest exposing his tattoos, black pants, black boots and his signature asymmetrical sunglasses. He's almost never seen wearing anything else, but he does seem to like going naked.

Justice Society of America: Stargirl's braces. She got them all the way back in issue 2 of Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E., and even though she later got "invisible" braces, she still has them. Their possible removal was a central plot point in the last issue Geoff Johns wrote in the 2007-2011 run.

Iron Man has a iconic color scheme. His armor changes every few years, but with a few notable exceptions (the Silver Centurion and War Machine armors), it's always red and yellow/gold ever since the late 60s. The helmet is also very consistent with its stylized eyes and mouth, with the Modular Armor being one of the few without a mouth.

Like Wolverine and the Riddler, Spider-Man also has two iconic outfits — the classic red and blue tights and the symbiote/black costume. In fact, people actually attribute it to his moods — if he's wearing the black costume, run.

Immediately after getting rid of the black suit, Spidey was temporarily costumeless and had to borrow one of Johnny Storm's old uniforms, which lacked a mask so he also wore a paper bag over his head. While only appearing for the one issue, the Bombastic Bagman costume has never been forgotten. It frequently shows up as an unlockable alternate outfit in Spider-Man games and is even occasionally alluded to in the comics themselves.

Superman wears the most iconic super-hero costume, but Clark Kent also has a trademark look. Whenever a story is not specifically grounded in the present day (think Batman the Animated Series) Clark is usually seen wearing the fedora that used to be a standard part of his outfit in the 40's and 50's. Jimmy Olsen often wears a sweater vest and a bow tie.

The Punisher: Frank Castle's white skull t-shirt is about as close to a uniform he has.

In Noob, Castorga enforces this for Mist, who has come out of a ten-year retirement and hence has very outdated equipment. He gets upgrade items for Mist's equipment instead of entirely new stuff because he's counting on the moral boosting aspect of her return and is afraid people who remember her won't recognize her in another outfit.

Amy in Sonic the Comic has an Unlimited Wardrobe however fanart most commonly has her wearing a sweatshirt with a heart on it and a green skirt. Amy actually owns many sweatshirts with different designs on them in canon.

Jughead's hat. It's The Artifact from an early 20th century style where boys would tear up old fedoras and wear them, however it has become entirely associated with Jughead. Attempts to modernize the hat or remove it have failed.

Archie is associated with a sweater (usually with an "A" on it) and a bow-tie. He hasn't worn it in decades but it's his go-to "retro" outfit in artwork.

Charlie Brown wouldn't be Charlie Brown without the zigzag stripe shirt. Ironically, in early comics he wore an ordinary blank shirt, but his zigzag has overshadowed it for good.

Linus has his horizontally striped shirt (usually coloured red in the Sunday strips), where the black stripes are narrower than the corresponding ones on Schroeder's otherwise very similar shirt. And you can tell Linus' younger brother Rerun from him by his overalls.

Peppermint Patty is very distinct with her vertically striped shirt (usually coloured green) and sandals. Also, she always wore shorts, even when all the other girls still wore skirts.

In the second season of Children of Time, Sherlock Holmes consents wearing an Inverness cloak for the sake of recognition, but draws the line at the deerstalker. (In this 'verse, he's worn the deerstalker only once, on Dartmoor, and the Inverness not at all before the 22nd century.)

In Tangled Adventures In Arendelle this is played with. Elsa still enjoys wearing her ice dress, but she isn't insistent on ALWAYS wearing it. And even is willing to put it aside for a while in order to make her citizens feel less threatened since it's a physical representation of her powers.

Bad Future Crusaders: Twitch, one of Lightning Dust's wing ponies, is instantly recognizable by the battered old flight cap he always wears. When he's killed by a bomb blast, it's the only way to identity his remains.

Fanart featuring the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters in anthropomorphic or human form have settled for some commonly accepted outfits: Twilight Sparkle in a schoolgirl outfit or a sweater-vest, Fluttershy in an oversized turtleneck sweater, Rainbow Dash in gym gear (goggles optional), Rarity in a white dress or business suit, Applejack in daisy dukes, Spike in a hoodie or t-shirt, Gilda in a bomber jacket, etc.

Films — Animation

Every Disney Princess has one of these. With the exception of Pocahontas, every single one of them had at least one wardrobe change during their respective movie. Tiana sets the record with a multitude of clothing changes, plus a full-on frog transformation, while most Disney Princess media depict her in her Pimped-Out Dress:

A little jarring in the case of Mulan, whose Iconic Outfit is her matchmaker dress (which she was uncomfortable wearing), but even more for Rapunzel from Tangled, whose long blonde hair is in every piece of merchandise... while it being cut was what freed her from her oppressor.

Frozen: Elsa's "ice dress" is easily her signature outfit, though her coronation dress is well-recognized too.

While not nearly as iconic as Elsa's ice dress, Anna's post-blizzard attire is much more iconic than her casual attire or her coronation dress (both of which use green instead of the pinkish purple of her cold weather clothes).

Beauty and the Beast: Belle's blue-and-white "everyday clothes" and her fancy yellow dress, while the Beast is only ever seen in his purple cape and trousers or his formal blue and gold outfit

Aladdin's rags, which are more iconic than his princely attire. Possibly lampshaded in-universe with the fact that he seems more comfortable in them than his prince garb (considering the fact that he wears his rags more often in the TV series at least).

Tinker Bell's dress as well as her outfits in the Disney Fairies films.

Indiana Jones' brown, tattered fedora, bomber jacket and bullwhip. To a slightly lesser degree, there's his satchel, which is actually a British WW1 gas mask pouch. RedLetterMedia notes that Indy is such a Flat Character that if you removed the fedora, it wouldn't be Indy, because he's more of an icon than an actual person.

The trademark tuxedo, of course. This has led to a misguided notion that he wears nothing but it (a staple of the typical Shallow Parody of the series), which isn't true. He wears plenty of normal, practical outfits (even military fatigues) and the tuxedo is limited mostly to social events. Bond's tuxedo is so emblematic that it's often invoked in things inspired by Bond, as a Shout-Out. And every single James Bond video game always includes at least one mission where he wears it.

Princess Leia's cinnamon-bun hairdo. Her white dress and blaster are also part of her classic look, but not as important as the hair. Her more famous outfit, (if you can call it that...), is the metal bikini. In fact, parody depictions will often combine the cinnabon hair and bikini, despite being from different movies.

Han's vest and yellow-striped pants.

Luke has a few:

His initial kimono-esque tunic and boots.

Luke's grey-green jacket and pants that he wore on Dagobah and Cloud City.

Luke's all black Jedi Knight shirt and pants, and brown cloak.

His white Jedi robes and the brown-grey cloak from the end of The Force Awakens is starting to become this, too.

The yellow and black tracksuit from Game of Death (although it only appeared in one movie for a few minutes), especially after Uma Thurman wore the same outfit in Kill Bill. In fact, that track suit is one of the many ways to tell if someone's a Bruce Lee Clone.

A close second would be bare-chested in black pants as seen in Enter the Dragon.

Freddy Krueger: A red and green striped sweater and fedora, with the razor-clawed glove on his right hand.

Betelgeuse's black and white striped suit is only one of about the six costumes he wears throughout the film, but it's the one everyone remembers. It was the outfit featured on the movie poster◊, and was the one carried over to his animated version◊.

The Mask: Stanley Ipkiss becomes The Mask four times. Only in one he wears that yellow zoot suit, but it's so iconic any derivative works, such as the video game and the Animated Adaptation, turns it into his regular outfit. And like with Beetlejuice, it's the outfit he wears for the movie poster.

Ferris Bueller's ugly orange-and-black sweater vest, worn over a plain white T-shirt. His True Companions also have iconic items of clothing — Cameron has his Red Wings jersey, and Sloane has her white fringed jacket.

Dracula's black suit and cape that Bela Lugosi wore. He was even buried in it.

Hannibal Lecter's restraint mask from The Silence of the Lambs. Not even mentioned in the novel (he wore a hockey mask instead) and appearing only for a single scene in the movie, it went on to have a starring role in Hannibal, which opens with Mason Verger buying the mask for a ridiculous amount of money, has a scene of him wearing it and eventually putting it on Dr. Lecter. It gets featured again in Red Dragon for a brief scene and Hannibal Rising features a moment with him putting on an ancient samurai mask that resembles his later restraint. The mask has become a symbol for Hannibal Lecter despite him wearing it for just a few minutes in every movie. The Iconic Mask latter appeared in advertising for the second season of the TV series but this time it's Will Graham in the mask. Considering how the first season ended with him being framed for Hannibal's murders it's actually quite fitting.

To a lesser extent, Norma's red baseball cap in the '76 version, which she wore in every scene, even at prom and at the hairdresser (it rested on top of the hair dryer). Reportedly, the hat was the idea of her actress, P. J. Soles.

Laurel and Hardy's bowler hats (often depicted in their movies' opening titles for instant identification) — gives them a little dignity against all odds. True to the Hat Shop trope, wearing them in Way Out West marks them as out of their element.

From Inception, Eames's Paisley shirt, Arthur's waistcoat and Ariadne's scarf has become character identifiers in fandom.

In the Harry Potter movies, the main trio's most memorable outfits outside of the Hogwarts uniforms and robes are the regular clothes they wore in the third act of Prisoner of Azkaban. Especially Hermione's pink hoodie. Plus the blue-grey T-shirt with blue trim that Harry wore in the third act. He wears it throughout◊the◊series◊

Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever wears different clothes throughout the movie but the white leisure suit is the one people remember most.

Parodied in Last Action Hero: The "hero", played by Arnold Schwarzenegger , wears a brown leather jacket, jeans, and a red t-shirt. When he opens his closet to change clothes, the closet is full of identical t-shirts, jeans, and jackets.

The Wicked Witch Of The West's black hat and dress. Even just her hat alone is enough to identify her.

Gene Wilder's costume for Willy Wonka is considered the iconic outfit of the character: purple coat, floral waistcoat, bow tie, brown trousers, and matching top hat. Any parody will base itself on this.

Corran Horn's green◊ flight suit became an iconic outfit in-universe, after his apparent death during the liberation of Coruscant, after which the New Republic briefly made it Rogue Squadron's standard uniform in his honor. Apparently the rest of the squadron went back to wearing orange after it was revealed that Corran wasn't really dead.

Harry Potter's big, round, black glasses. Combine with a striped scarf and/or school uniform, and you have one of the most easily recognizable outfits in history. Black robes are a plus, but not even entirely necessary.

Sherlock Holmes: The deerstalker hat, Inverness cape and pipe are Holmes's iconic outfit, though it is essentially absent in the stories. The hat and cape were rustic attire not worn by someone in the city of London, where Holmes spends most of his time. The clothes were actually the invention of Sidney Paget, the illustrator for Strand Magazine, and he originally gave it to Holmes only when investigating in the country. With the start of The Memoirs and the story "Silver Blaze," Doyle decided to Throw It In by mentioning Holmes's "ear-flapped travelling-cap," obviously describing the deerstalker and making it canonical after all. While Holmes does occasionally smoke in the stories, it's not given any special emphasis, and illustrations give him a straight billard, changing to cigarettes when they came into fashion. His iconic calabash pipe was the invention of actor William Gillette, who did not want his mouth to be obscured while performing the role.

Where's Wally?: The red and white striped shirt, hat with a red puffball, and round glasses are infamous. Popular, too; so much so that everyone in the damn books wears something that looks like it.

The Shadow is best remembered on pulp-fiction covers for wearing a long black overcoat (sometimes with cape), red silk scarf, and black slouch hat.

Alice in Wonderland. Oh, so many characters. Alice's blue dress and white pinafore, the Mad Hatter's crazy jacket and his hat with the price tag in it, the White Rabbit's waistcoat and watch...to name just a few.

The Lord of the Rings: Gandalf's Wizard Classic ensemble basically codified what wizards wear. Everyone copied the look, and few avoided looking like Gandalf knock-offs.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Arthur Dent's bathrobe; bonus points if he's holding a towel. Interestingly, this was a surprisingly late development, given that the point is he's been stuck in the same outfit since the saga started. Douglas Adams wrote a scene for the TV series where the Heart of Gold provides him with a change of clothes but it was decided to leave him in his dressing gown. Following this Life, the Universe and Everything establishes that he's still wearing it; the previous books not having mentioned his clothing either way. (He finally has a chance to change in the following book.)

Going way back, Jesus will be shown wearing a white toga with a red sash around the shoulder more often than not.

Katniss Everdeen, in and out of universe. In The Hunger Games, her black jacket and orange backpack are standard issue for the arena, but add her braid and her bow and you have an icon just about as recognisable as Harry Potter's scar-and-glasses look. In the sequels this develops into an in-universe iconic outfit. Her mocking jay dress and later mockingjay uniform which riffs on it are explicitly designed to make her iconic to the viewing public.

Paddington Bear's bush hat (either red or - canonically - black), duffle coat, wellington boots. In the books he originally arrives in London just wearing the hat, and gets the coat when the Browns adopt him and the wellies much later at Christmas.

The Fourth Doctor's bohemian outfit with the long scarf and the Fifth's cricket outfit, with, um, decorative vegetable. The Sixth and Seventh Doctors were intentionally designed to be as iconic as possible (the former involving a profusion of colors, the latter a shirt with question marks on it and an umbrella carried in any weather), but weren't as successful as the subtler examples. The Fourth Doctor's scarf is probably the most iconic item of any Doctor's outfit, based at least partially on Toulouse-Lautrec's painting◊ of Aristide Bruant. This was lampshaded in the audio "The Demon of Paris", where the story is started by the Doctor finding a version of the poster that was altered into a likeness of him.

Ten's penchant for wearing Converse sneakers with a brown pinstriped suit. The trenchcoat is also instantly recognizable.

Eleven's bowtie. Bowties Are Cool. Briefly, fezzes and a Stetson he wore for all of a minute. That was all it needed. Eleven clearly wanted the fez to become a regular part of his outfit, but River Song vaporized it with a laser gun because she thought it looked stupid.

Zoe is associated with the glittery catsuit that she wore in "The Mind Robber" and "The Invasion" much more than any of her other costumes.

Turlough only wore shorts in his final episode but it's become quite memorable among some followers, due to it being...rather short. His school uniform is also well known cause that was (almost) all he wore.

The tacky op-art dress that Dodo wears in "The Celestial Toymaker" is the outfit primarily associated with her, even though she only wears it in one story, all but one episode of which is missing. This was probably as the most recognisable visual depiction of her for pre-home-video fans was the cover of the novelisation, which depicts it. Steven is also associated strongly with the striped polo-neck he wears in the same story, which his actor Peter Purves expressed disappointment with in an interview on the "The Tenth Planet" DVD extras; he claimed it wasn't even cool in the 1960s and wished that people associated him with the beautiful Renaissance clothes he got to wore in "The Massacre" instead.

Catwoman's leather catsuit from the 1960s Batman. It was so popular that many people assume that the comics version wore something similar all the time, whereas it wasn't introduced until Darwyn Cooke's redesign of her costume in the early 2000s. Post-Crisis she previously usually wore a purple catsuit, while her pre-Crisis version often wore dresses.

Happy Days: The Fonz in his iconic leather jacket, now hanging in the Smithsonian. Ironically, in his first few appearances he wore an ordinary windbreaker because the network that Happy Days was on wouldn't allow his character to be portrayed as a juvenile delinquent even though he was, but later allowed the jacket to be worn when the writers pointed out that it was legitimate safety equipment for a motorcycle rider.

Emma Peel of The Avengers: black leather Spy Catsuits. The thing is that they weren't very rugged and after any action scene all the seams would be ripped out, so after the first few episodes she stopped wearing them, but that is all that anybody remembers her wearing. Apart from the purple ones, of course.

In Power Rangers Wild Force, the previous season's Rangers came back during a teamup two-parter that the fandom remembers fondly. The fandom also fondly remembers the apocalyptic future-based black leather/PVC outfit◊ the Pink Ranger was dressed in during her first appearance in said episodes as she singly handedly saves everybody else in the cast.

The Ranger outfit itself is iconic enough to be recognised by non-fans - base color bodysuit & helmet, long white gloves, boots & belt, and large black eyepiece on helmet, hardly varying from one season to another. Making it easy enough to create Evil Twins for a Mirror Match, just color the white parts black. There was an understandable backlash over the Juken Sentai Gekiranger (later Power Rangers Jungle Fury) outfits for having short-cuff gloves, shoes and no belts.

The regular Star Trek uniforms. Actually, if you watch the entire run of the original 1960s Star Trek series, you notice that the character's uniforms changed fairly often, but one specific set of uniforms from the 1960s series has become iconic largely because that particular set was standardized in the later Star Trek cartoons and action figures of the early 1970s. Kids and teenagers who watched those cartoons and played with those action figures then tended to watch the original live-action shows with the retcon idea that the 1970s standardization had been there from the beginning of the 1960s series. Then, the Star Trek conventions of the 1970s deepened the collective impression that a specific set of the 1960s uniforms had been "the" uniforms. Those uniforms thus became iconic.

Claire was defined by the writers as "The Cheerleader" from day one, so they always have to find a way to show her in a cheerleader outfit, even when it stretches credibility, and everyone still refers to her as "The Cheerleader".

Supernatural: Dean's leather jacket and amulet and, even more so, Castiel's trenchcoat (which is modelled on John Constantine's trenchcoat), suit, and backwards blue tie. In "The Rapture", it's pretty weird to see Jimmy in other clothes. On more of a thematic level, Sam (Dean wears it, too, and it's also sort of shorthand for hunters in general, but it's most strongly associated with Sam) and plaid.

The Dukes of Hazzard: Daisy Duke's incredibly-high-cut tight jean short-shorts. So much that they were named after her.

Headbands hadn't been a trend for years when the show started. Blair is seldom seen without one. It's lampshaded quite a few times, and she even gives headbands to prospect minions, in college.

Charlie Harper's bowling t-shirts in Two and a Half Men. So iconic that, during Charlie Sheen's (in)famous breakdown, when, among other things, he burned one of these in public and stated in interviews how he hated them, it was already sure that he wasn't going to come back to the series.

Mike Nesmith's green wool-knit hat in The Monkees. The Real Life Mike wore it to keep his hair out of his eyes when stopping in on a laundry run when he went in the audition, and was identified by the show's producers in his audition tapes via this hat. He was even nicknamed "Wool Hat" in the pilot.

Although it wasn't uncommon for them to change clothes, the human/humanoid cast members of Mystery Science Theater 3000 had more or less iconic outfits to fall back on the other 90% of the time: Joel and Mike's boiler suits, Dr. Forrester's neon green lab coat, Frank's black smock, Observer's blue hooded cape (a constant across the evolution of his costume), and Bobo's purple blazer. Pearl had two iconic outfits: the Day-Glo shirt, vest and skirt she wore in her earliest appearances, and the olive-drab monogrammed jacket she adopted near the end of the show's run.

When they did make an obvious change, it was usually for a joke—like the Brain Bleach-inducing silver lamé outfit worn by Mike as part of a parody of Spanish-language kids' TV—or it would have some connection back to their iconic outfits, like the neon green tank top Dr. Forrester would change into for anything sports-related.

Pearl Forrester probably changed clothes more often than any of the other characters, but in the Sci-Fi Channel years she had an iconic hairstyle: regardless of what she was wearing, her hair was almost always pulled neatly back into a bun.

Rod Roddy, the announcer on The Price Is Right from 1985-2003, almost always wore custom-made Thai silk suits. However, they weren't seen in the last couple years of his tenure, as Rod had stopped appearing on camera for the most part.

Sarah Lund's Faroe Isles woollen sweater in Forbrydelsen. It got so iconic that the Radio Times promoted the show's second season in the UK with a knitting pattern.

Person of Interest has John Reese and his nice suit. It took a while before Reese settled on his black suit/white shirt combo (though he'd worn other suits before), but he eventually becomes known as "The Man in the Suit". His rejection of the suit in "Lethe" and "Aletheia" is used to underscore his disillusionment with the cause and him deciding to pick up a new suit in "4C" heralds his return.

An in-universe example occurs in Sherlock when Sherlock grabs an unusual, completely-outside-of-his-usual-fashion-taste deerstalker hat in order to hide his face from paparazzi, with the result that he's photographed wearing the hat and his in-universe fandom assumes he wears it all the time. His fans routinely talk about it and one of the fake kiss-and-tell stories that his fake Honey Trapped girlfriend pulls on him has the headline "He made me wear the hat". And, of course, this particular take on the character actually has an iconic outfit of his own, even if it's not the one he's known for in-universe: the well-fitted shirt, expertly-tailored suit, slipknot blue scarf, and Belstaff greatcoat.

Top Gear's James May, known for his taste in loud shirts. His most famous is a pink-and-purple striped jumper he has worn on many occasions. Joked about on his own series, James May's Man Lab, when he pulled it out of his vast and colorful shirt collection and claimed to have never even worn it.

Beverly's bedazzled sweaters. They are based on the real Beverly Goldberg's sweaters, some of which are actually worn on the show.

Barry's orange Philadelphia Flyers shirt, which he calls Big Orange.

Promotional materials for The X-Files almost invariably depict Mulder and Scully solving cases in matching black suits with their FBI name tags clipped to their breast pockets, even though in the show itself they wear a much wider variety of formalwear in the field and never wear their tags when outside of the FBI headquarters. The reason the black suits and tags are so iconic is likely that they instantly identify the pair as special agents and conjure up images of The Men in Black.

The cute "play" clothes and hair done in cute pig tails that she wore when car washing in the "Call Me Maybe" music video.

The sexy black and white spagetti-strapped top and black mini dress and cute floral waist coat she wore at the beginning of the "This Kiss" music video. The multicolored paints, cute sparkly pink spagetti-strapped top and adorable sparkly red vest she wore at the end of the video.

At the 2006 Academy Awards, Jon Stewart joked that "We're sorry Bjork couldn't join us this year. She was getting into her dress and Dick Cheney shot her."

MADtv paid homage to this outfit when a recurring character wore it. Her name: Ms. Swan.

Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson is known for the long black frock-coat, tight ballet tights, exaggerated codpiece, thigh-high boots and bedraggled long hair and beard he wore in The '70s, all of which Tull used for publicity long after he stopped adopting that style of clothing or hairstyle (he's actually balding and wears a short goatee and less dramatic clothing in his old age).

The white trousers and yellow leather jacket (and mustache) worn by Freddie Mercury during Queen's "Magic" tour (their final tour) in 1986. And in The '70s, Freddie wore tight, chest hair-exposing latex jumpsuits (often "checkerboard"-colored) and black fingernail polish onstage. Reputedly, when he adopted the "clone" '80's look, some fans threw shaving razors and bottles of nail polish at him in protest. His "leatherman" suit and cap from the 1979 tour, and his "Flash" t-shirts from the early 80's are also equally iconic.

The "Magic" tour outfit was also immortalized in Freddie Mercury's depiction in S.H. Figuarts, complete with bottomless mic stand.

He only wore a flannel shirt for a few months in 1990, but it is the article of clothing most frequently associated with both him and grunge fashion in general.'

Otherwise, his stripped shirt and jeans outfit from the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video and that green sweater, jeans and sneakers outfit he wore during his MTV unplugged performance (Neversoft went with this look when he appeared in Guitar Hero 5).

Madonna's conic bra. Honorable mention to the wedding dress on the Like a Virgin cover and the black dress from the "Like a Prayer" video.

Geri Halliwell of the Spice Girls is usually remembered for wearing a dress with the Union Jack on it, which was surprisingly lampshaded at the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton when a reporter pointed out a similar dress that an attendant was wearing. More recently, she teamed up with British clothing retailer Next to release her own line of Union Jack-designed clothing.

Earlier, you had Pete Townshend wearing a Union Jack suit during the early days of The Who.

Rapper Flavor Flav always wears a large clock around his neck.

Similar to the Elvis example, Jim Morrison's own leather outfit that he wore in 1967-68.

Slipknot's combination of masks and jumpsuits. Even though they change the mask designs every album cycle and the jumpsuits have changed to a uniform black outfit, they're still associated with jumpsuits.

In a (sometimes) infamous sense, a character wearing short, blonde, spiky hair in Girlish Pigtails shaped like teddy bear ears, flesh-colored lingerie and a giant, white foam finger (often with his or her tongue sticking out), dancing suggestively and twerking, will recall the performance Miley Cyrus gave at the 2013 MTVVideo Music Awards◊. Bonus points if the character stands next to a man in a black shirt, short, black hair, dark aviator sunglasses and a loud, pinstriped black-and-white suit a la Robin Thicke. Ditto to the "Wrecking Ball" outfit.

The Residents, an Avant-garde Music Band, always appeared as 4 eyeballs (of various colors) wearing suits and top hats. That is, until one of the Eyeball helmets was stolen by a fan. Although it was returned, it was never used again. Instead, said Eyeball helmet was replaced with a skull helmet. So now their Iconic Outfits are 3 eyeballs wearing suits and top hats and one skull wearing a suit.

According to The Other Wiki, Avril Lavigne mentioned in an interview that she stopped wearing "ties and wife-beaters" by 2002 (a reaction against the glammed-out, sexualized look of the early-2000s) as it "felt like (she) was wearing a costume".

Lacey from Flyleaf in a black dress is the most common image attributed to the band.

Games Workshop takes advantage of the iconic nature of certain factions' helmets by using stylized versions as shorthand logos on the packaging, most prominently Space Marine helmets and Eldar Guardians' tall pointy helmets.

As of the most recent Eldar Codex there have been studio models demonstrating the variations in color scheme among different shrines within each Aspect, but the original shrine the relevant Phoenix Lord founded is almost always the scheme shown in official art.

Almost every army with its own Codex has a 'poster child' subdivision that tends to make it into most of the official art, spinoff materials, and demonstration studio miniatures.

The Space Marines come in all the colors of the rainbow, but the blue and gold of the Ultramarines is undoubtedly the most well-recognized scheme.

The Tau have many septs in different colours note Tau septs do use different symbols, but unlike all other factions, their septs are denoted by small stripes placed in strategic places on the armours, not the obvious main colours. and even tend to actually use camouflage, but the ochre and brown paint scheme is regarded as their dress uniform and, combined with the symbol of the T'au sept, tends to be shown more often.

The Sisters of Battle have many different sects and priories, but the most widespread scheme among the studio models is the black and red with white helmets of the Order of Our Martyred Lady.

The Imperial Guard comes in countless different shapes and sizes, but the dull greens of the Cadian regiments are the most popular paint scheme.

The black and blue with red runes of Asdrubael Vect's Kabal tends to be the color scheme seen most amongst the Dark Eldar.

The Eldar are the only real exception to the 'poster child' theorem, given the variety of units available; the studio army that shows up in the pictures on the boxes is painted in the red and white of Saim-Hann, but the blue and yellow of Iyanden, the white and green of Biel-Tan, the mottled blue and yellow helmets of Alaitoc, and the black and bone white of Ulthwe are almost as popular.

The "Popular" dress. Cheeseypoofs has seen people tried to find it so they can go as Galinda for Halloween.

As is the norm, Elphaba is associated with her black hat, black dress, and broom. Many fans also associate her with her Shiz-era attire and glasses.

Quite a few from Les Misérables (Valjean's national guard outfit, Eponine's trenchcoat and hat, Cosette's black dress), but most notably the red vest that Enjolras wears from the Act 1 finale onwards. It's known as the "Red Vest Of Doom" to fans.

Holly Hobbie's patchwork dress and bonnet. Holly Hobbie and Friends modernized her look but her grandmother wore the bonnet as a child.

Video Games

Appearing (or not) in a variety of media, Carmen Sandiego has her matching red hat and trenchcoat.

Brink has The Anger (particularly the black and red variant), appearing in the developer's Vanity Plate (throwing the Molotov that explodes into the Splash Damage logo). The hood and bandana combo were also available as promotional headgear for the Sniper in Team Fortress 2.

Pauline's torn red dress is enforced as this in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series, as whenever Donkey Kong kidnaps her, Mario grabs for her but only grabs the hem of her dress and tears it (the same way, every time).

Played with in terms of Bowser. While his green, spiky shell is easily recognizable, it isn't really an actual outfit, let alone clothes. Played straight with his spiked collars on his neck and arms, however.

Alucard's 18th century outfit from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night has become his default look to the point that he's still wearing it in Dawn of Sorrow, which is set in 2036.

In Dead Space Isaac Clarke wears various armors, however each game has a suit that gets used extensively in promotional materials, serving as the outfit featured in most (if not all) trailers. In Dead Space, the Level 3 Engineering RIG served that role; it featured in all trailers for the game. In Dead Space 2, the Advanced RIG serves the promotional function, and is the final suit unlocked in game. In Dead Space 3, that role is split between the EVA suit in space and the Arctic Survival Suit planetside. Overall, the Level 3 RIG is probably Isaac's most iconic suit, as it is featured in 2 and 3; and if Isaac has a cameo in other games, he's more likely than not to be wearing that rig.

Link's "Sheikah blue" tunic from Breath of the Wild got a lot of positive feedback from the fanbase, to the point that fans are willing to accept it as an alternative to the aforementioned outfit. Let that sink in.

Zelda's purple and white dress from Twilight Princess also counts to the point that it's practically her default outfit. It even shows up in fanarts for other games where she wore mostly pink.

Final Fantasy VII downplays this. Most of the original game's outfits and their Advent Children outfits are both fairly popular. For example, Tifa's usually portrayed in a white shirt, miniskirt and assets but her all-leather Advent Children ensemble isn't far behind. The exceptions are Sephiroth whose almost always associated with his leather trenchcoat and Aerith, whose outfits change in all of her Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts appearances, but is usually associated with her pink dress, pink ribbon and red jacket.

Solid Snake's sneaking suit in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty has become a fondly remarked-upon outfit, especially for the the way it highlightshis backside — remember that he only wore it for about two hours (technically, as it's actually the MGS1 sneaking suit minus the thermal vest), in a game where he wasn't even the lead character, and yet it's eclipsed everything else he's ever worn to the point where it's considered his 'default' look. The Bandanna would probably fall under this as well, if it wasn't already an in-game meme/infinity-plus-one-bandanna. There's also his trusty cardboard box. To a lesser extent is the sneaking suit from Metal Gear Solid, which as above is the same as the Sons of Liberty one with a thick thermal vest/body armor added - spinoffs such as Ghost Babel and the Acid games have him wearing that variant, which fit well for the near-arctic Alaskan environment it was introduced for but looks completely out of place in the Central and South African areas those spinoffs take place in.

Certainly the mullet. Even though he wore his hair short in as many games as he wore his hair long, including in his first appearance on the PlayStation, and even though it's not even technically a mullet, the meme's stuck and the haircut is invariably associated with him. Although as a charm point rather than a means of mockery.

Niko Bellic is often portrayed wearing fingerless gloves, even though he never actually wore them in-game. The reason for this is because of early artwork showing him wearing them, although they were removed from the game later on. Asking where Niko's fingerless gloves were became a popular meme on GTA message boards.

Niko's starting outfit, a leather jacket and tracksuit, has become rather iconic, too, to the point where he wears them in all his appearances in the expansion packs, despite having access to a designer clothing store and plenty of money.

Master Chief's armor in Halo. That might be because he never wears anything else.

Silent Hill: Pyramid Head's, um, pyramid head, a huge, implied-to-be-very-heavy torture helmet that may or may not be his actual head. Note that the original is solid and has five sides, whereas the most popular version from the movie is four-sided and included grating (because it was impossible for the actor to wear otherwise).

His shorts and backpack are so iconic that they appear on every. single. transformation. that the pair have been through in both the original and sequel. Yes, even the ones that don't make any semblance of sense, like a pumpkin, a snowball, or a washing machine.

Powered Armor for the Fallout series. As well as the iconic blue-and-yellow-trimmed Vault suits, complete with PipBoy. Each game in this series has a set of armor adorning the cover: Fallout has the T-51b, Fallout 2 has the Enclave's Advanced Power Armor, Fallout 3 has the T-45d and Fallout 4 has the T-60. Fallout: New Vegas is different in that its shown outfit is the NCR Veteran Ranger's combat armor, which is un-powered.

The Varia Suit. Although Samus rarely starts the game with it (and if she does, there's a pretty good chance she loses it pretty soon) and usually gets another upgrade or two to her suit, its design (complete with the iconic Shoulders of Doom) and color scheme are synonymous with her Powered Armor.

The Youngster trainer class and their shorts. "I like shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear!"

The playable characters are also easily recognizable in their attire. Red in particular is very well-known for both his classic and modern clothes (especially the hat, which is included in Super Smash Bros. in both incarnations).

Cynthia is almost never depicted in fanworks or canon without her coat.

Koei is responsible for doing this to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms characters. While many elements of the more iconic characters' appearance, like Guan Yu with his long flowing beard, do exist in the original literature, the Dynasty Warriors games and any predecessors and successors therein always depict recurring characters with now-signature features, to the extent that other properties depicting Three Kingdoms, like this webcomic and the toyline BB Senshi Sangokuden also use them — Lu Bu with his pheasant-feathered headgear, Ma Chao with spiky anime hair, Sun Ce's choice of weapons, the list goes on.

Oh wait! We forgot to mention the new goodgreen haired miko in white and blue who lives with Suwako and Kanako in the Moriya Shrine. That's right guys! It's Sanae Kochiya (or Kotiya, depends upon your choice).

Reisen Udongein Inaba only wore a suit jacket in one game out of all the other official games which she had been in. In all the other official works she doesn't wear it; but even so it's become her Iconic Outfit, to the point that in fanart she is almost never depicted without it.

Flandre Scarlet's distinctive metal-and-"Christmas lights" wings certainly make an impression (unfortunately missing in the picture is a single glowing eye peering out of the darkness at you). Although, the Iconicness might partly come from the fact that Flandre's wings resemble Marx's wings.

In fact, a rather famousFan Vid uses the incredible number of unique outfits by showing only silhouettes of the characters. Behold the variety! More experienced Touhou fans can identify each character shown.

All of the Team Fortress 2 classes' outfits, and for good reason — they were designed so that players would be able to identify their opponents at a glance. They were designed and tested to be instantly recognizable in silhouette, in low lighting, to contrast with the backgrounds, and to draw focus towards the torso and head, the two parts you aim for. They have a big presentation on it floating around the internet, that includes the fiendishly complex shading algorithms.

Left 4 Dead: Nick's $3,000 white suit with blue shirt underneath. The style has recently come back in Real Life, causing many fans' heads to whiplash whenever they see it in stores or on TV on unrelated people.

The standard Assassin outfit (a long robe/coat with a red sash and a beaked hood, normally in white) in Assassin's Creed is this. No matter the time period, almost every Assassin will wear some variant: the Roman Empire, the Crusades, the Renaissance, Imperial China, the American Revolution, the Russian Revolution... Even Desmond's white hoodie harkens back to it. It's not strictly required, but is worn by every Assassin protagonist except Aveline.

Many other examples as well. Kazuya's purple tuxedo, Lee's tuxedo, Anna's red Dragon Lady dress as well as her 1920s-esque "zebra" outfit, etc.

Dead or Alive has several of these, especially for the women in the game (Lei Fang's Little Black Dress, for instance). But one of the most memorable belongs to a male character: Zack's silver "Teletubby" outfit. Kasumi is primarily known for her blue shinobi outfit.

Red pants belted together at the knee. Black jacket. White button-up shirt. You are now seeing Iori.

Terry Bogard has two of these - one with an orange trucker cap, the other with a wool-lined brown coat.

Dragon Quest IX plays with this: among the many equipment options you can discover are an array of Mythology Gag gear that lets you dress up your current party to look like heroes from all of the previous games in the series. You even gain Accolades by collecting and donning a complete set, as well as several Accolades if you manage to match what the representatives for each class are wearing in the example illustrations. On top of this, a lot of the gear that isn't directly connected to one of the past heroes are still references and holdovers from older games in the series, like the Water Flying Cloth/Flowing Robe.

Hawke in Dragon Age II, having become a living Folk Hero to the people of Thedas, has the Mantle of the Champion as their iconic outfit. The Mage version of the armour is the one used in the promotional materials and box-art. They still wear the Mantle by the time of Inquisition.

Varric has his iconic leather coat and chest hair and Isabella has her own iconic outfit compared to her Origins appearance where she wore fairly nondescript armour.

Most people in the first game end up swapping out their gear for better armor over the course of the story, except for Morrigan, whose starting robes are ahead of the curve when they first appear and are available as a better version with the same character model after completing her personal quest, and whose subsequent appearance in Witch Hunt has her wearing the exact same clothing (unlike anyone else from the first game who appears somewhere else later).

Dragon Age: Inquisition frequently depict the Inquisitor in the Armor of the Inquisitor... appropriately enough. There's also the infamous beige pajamas worn around Skyhold, but a patch has since introduced new clothing options.

No matter how many alternate appearance packs are released, or how many customization options are given to the characters, nearly everyone in the Mass Effect trilogy seems to always end up in the promotional material or cutscenes wearing the outfits they first showed up in. The major exceptions are Liara, who swapped her generic dark-green labcoat for a unique white outfit in the second game, and Ashley/Kaidan, whose default outfit was replaced with a redesigned blue suit of armor and off-duty garb in the third game.

Most notable example is, of course, Shepard's default N7 armor, despite being far from the best suit available statwise. You always start in the dark grey armour with the red and white stripe. Even in-universe, though there are other N7 graduates, and you may have undergone cosmetic surgery between games, your squadmates instantly know that the human in front of them wearing an N7 badge is Shepard.

Dante of Devil May Cry fame is nearly instantly recognizable by the image of his red leather Badass Longcoat, although it's a slight subversion in that the outfit is slightly different in each game (different vests in 1 and 2, no shirt in 3, different coat design in 4), but the imagery of the red coat juxtaposed with the visual contrast of his white hair is certainly iconic.

Ryu Hayabusa's black ninja suit (aka the "Legendary Black Falcon") from Team Ninja's reboot of the Ninja Gaiden series ended up becoming his standard outfit from the fourth Dead or Alive game and onward, becoming his most iconic design outside his original blue outfit from the earlier arcade and NES games.

Kantai Collection gives us Shimakaze, whose outfit consists of a sleeveless sailor top, elbow gloves, a hair ribbon tied like rabbit ears, a microskirt and a very visible thong. This outfit of hers was one of the factors contributing to the rise of the popularity and recognition of the game, to the extent that people would recognise her without even knowing who she was or which franchise she was from. It helps that (historically as well) being the only ship of her class, she's the only one wearing it.

Madotsuki's pink shirt with a checkerboard logo is instantly recognizable to fans of Yume Nikki.

Demon's Souls and its successors Dark Souls, Dark Souls II, and Bloodborne all feature outfits that are prominently shown either on the covers, in advertising, or both. They are also usually worn by plot-relevant non-player characters:

Demon's Souls: The Demon Slayer has the Fluted armor set along with the Rune Shield and Rune Sword. Also worn by Ostrava of Boletaria aka Prince Ariona Allant.

Dark Souls: The Chosen Undead boasts the Elite Armor set. Also worn by Oscar of Astora, the first character you encounter in the game whose final act before going Hollow is to free you and pass on his quest to you.

Dark Souls II: The Bearer of the Curse has the Faraam set. Featured prominently in artwork, it was even forged in real life by a modern day blacksmith for a commercial.

Bloodborne: The Hunter wears the Hunter Set which, while distinctive enough on its own, is most visible in the promo materials with the Saw Cleaver and Hunter Blunderbuss.

Dark Souls III: The Ashen One wears the Firelink set. Also worn by the Soul of Cinder, the deific manifestation of the First Flame and all those who Linked the Fire. This includes the Chosen Undead and the Bearer of the Curse.

Little Mac, the protagonist of Punch-Out!!, is well-known for his black and green outfit — especially the iconic, bright green boxing gloves. In the Wii game, it's the attire he wears in the Minor Circuit at the start of the game.

In the Tokimeki Memorial series: Shiori Fujisaki and her hairband. Yumi Saotome and Megumi Juuichiya, and their hair ribbons. Minori Akiho, and her X-shaped hair decs. Rhythmy Kyono and her headphones.

Angel Mort's uniform is also quite popular. Only Shion and Rika (sort of) actually wear it in the story, but every single girl of the series has been portrayed at least once with it in extras or goodies. Hell, even the guys (yes, Ooishi too) had to wear it in a manga omake.

Rika is often associated with the miko costume she only wears during the festival portions of the series.

The immense popularity of Half-Life: Full Life Consequences means that almost every video made using Garry's Mod uses the same "John Freeman" model as its star. Even before John Freeman, Male 07 had been a popular character model due to its starring role as Gordon Frohman in Concerned.

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: It's probably justified because we never see him wearing anything else, or his face through it, but Dr. McNinja's lab coat and Ninja mask. When Franz Rayner made an army of Doc clones, he even made sure to equip each and every single one of them with that same lab coat and mask.

Each of the kids has a shirt design that is iconic of them, and almost all of their alchemised clothing still has a basis in their original shirts in that they share the logo. Pink hairband and shirt with a defaced purple octopus? Rose. Broken record and baggy pants? Dave. Japanese Slimer T-shirt and cargo shorts (or these days, blue God Tier gear with a windy symbol)? John. Shirt with a dog-head silhouette and a long buttoned skirt? Jade. All the trolls get this too because they almost never wear anything else; trolls think fashion is stupid. Except for Kanaya and Eridan.

Aitor Molina always wears a red shirt with a black jacket or a blue hoodie.

Some of the "Fanservice" outfits in SOTF-TV qualify both in "Survival of the Snarkiest" and among the handlers, especially the ones that are actually worn by the characters. This includes Panya Bishara's Smokey the Bear fursuit, Mae St. Clair's geisha costume, Sidney Rice's Playboy Bunny gear, and Jeanette Buendia's hula girl outfit.

Fred's ascot (actually a neckerchief). Though present-day Freddie doesn't wear one, they do bust it out for homages every once in a while, as well as plenty of Lampshade Hanging in the series of Fred's fashion choice. Hank Venture wears one specifically to evoke Fred. There's been a Lampshade Hanging on this.

The other members of Mystery, Inc. also apply, though the ascot (being so out of place) is the most known.

Of particular note besides Fred, try to picture Shaggy in anything other than his green shirt and bell-bottoms combo. He's worn that outfit in just about every adaptation, reboot, movie, etc since the original show more than 40 years ago.

Black shirt, gray gloves, and khaki cargo-pants define Kim Possible's mission look. Also in-universe, to the point that one of the plot points of one episode was how everyone at her school was copying her (now popular and mass-produced) outfit ("Kim Style") without giving her the proper credit. Her mission outfit changed in Season 4, but you wouldn't know it from the fanart.

In an interesting case of an adaptation spawning an iconic outfit for a character, April O'Neil's iconic yellow jumpsuit spawned in the 1987 cartoon, and has been either in or alluded to in most other canons.

Phineas and Ferb's signature outfits, as lampshaded in one episode when whey went back-to-school shopping. In the earlier episode "Run Away Runway", they manage to get everyone in Danville wearing their signature outfits.

Several other minor characters are known almost as much for their accessories. In particular, Vinyl Scratch sports a pair of Cool Shades, minor antagonist Trixie has her hat and cape ensemble, and Octavia and her bowtie.

Princess Celestia and Princess Luna never take off their royal regalia. Ever. Celestia loses her tiara only twice; once when she gets owned by Queen Chrysalis and once at Twilight's inauguration. Luna is a similar case, except she also loses her tiara for a sleek suit of armor when she pulls Nightmare Moon out of the bag.

Wonderbolts Spitfire and Soarin' have both their opaque lensed flight goggles and blue and gold flight suits (which the rest of the team all also have) and their military uniforms, the former including her pair of Cool Shades. The latter's military uniform deserves special mention since he was only seen wearing it for one still.

Alvin, Simon, and Theodore have their long turtlenecks. They've worn them in almost everything since conception, though the modern hoodies they wear in the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies are starting to become this too.

The prototypical Chipette known as "Charlene" is unusual in that she's never worn her iconic outfit in canon. One music video shows an unnamed female chipmunk wearing a red dress and heels. It has never been confirmed to be Charlene, however the striking resemblance between the two has caused fans to consider her Charlene. Thus Charlene always wears a red dress in fan art, even when the only clothes she has been officially depicted in were 1950s style (because she sung a Grease song).

In the episode "Urban Jungle" of Danny Phantom, Sam gets hypnotized into being evil and gains the ability to control plants. "Plant Sam" is very popular.

Timmy's clothes aren't exactly special on their own but the fact they're pink makes him stand out. He almost always wears them in both canon and in fan art.

Trixie dressed as a boy once in "The Boy Who Would Be Queen" but regularly appears in the outfit in fanworks that go into depth about her secret tomboyishness.

Real Life

John Hodgman is always seen wearing the same brown suit with orange tie.

Abraham Lincoln's black suit, beard and stovepipe hat. During his lawyer and campaign days, Lincoln actually wore a white suit but it's not the look that has lived on.

A white surcoat over a chainmail hauberk with a Red Cross emblazoned on a Chest is obviously The Knights Templar. In actual fact, only the aristocratic officers and seniors wore these outfits. The Templar serjeants and foot soldiers wore black and as they came from lower classes, they comprised the vast majority of the Templar army. In addition there were Chaplins who wore green but that's not quite as iconic as the regalia. So much for the Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ. This is often combined with a great helm. Change the cross to black and add horns or wings to the helmet and you get The Teutonic Knights. Change the white surcoat to black and the red cross to a white Maltese cross and you get The Knights Hospitallers.

The obligatory all-concealing ninja outfit, rarely if ever worn by actual ninja in real life.

Tsewang Paljor, an Indian climber on Mount Everest, wore green boots when he and his two companions died in 1996. People have mostly forgotten who he was, and he's known now because his body was something everyone climbing the northeast ridge route had to pass until 2014, where the corpse disappeared in mysterious circumstances. He's now nicknamed... "Green Boots."

The Nazi uniform. Skulls on a cap (particularly if it's peaked), black military trenchcoats, jackboots and/or a red armband will remind people of the Nazis more than any other group. Writers often use this to make it more obvious that their villains are based on the Nazis. The brown party uniform isn't used as often, mostly because it's quite ugly.

Napoleon Bonaparte in his Blue Emperor suit which he sported for Jacques-Louis David's portrait. In actual fact, Napoleon wore a Grey Redingote, and he also carried a Red Cloak on occasion. When he visited Egypt, he even wore an Arab tunic and turban to try and blend in, but the image everyone has of Napoleon is that one outfit. Everyone also associates Napoleon with the bicorne hat.◊

Maximilien Robespierre is often depicted as The Dandy with foppish attire and large wig. He was indeed known for dressing in the Ancien Regime professional clothing even as the fashions changed to become more "casual" during the Revolution. One mistake made in fictional depictions is that they usually have Robespierre wearing dark clothing (partly because he's usually the villain) when the real man was famous for wearing brightly coloured clothes.

Elvis Presley 's sequined jumpsuits and capes, although they appeared most prominently at the final stages of his career. The black outfit Elvis wore for his '68 Comeback Special is as well, but to a lesser extent.

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